“Illustrated Record of the Provinces”

by “Shuzu Bunkokuki” 主圖分國記

$6,250 · Offered by Jonathan A. Hill Bookseller

Numerous hand-colored maps & illus. 15 parts in seven vols. Large 8vo 270 x 187 mm. , orig. semi-stiff wrappers, new stitching. Japan : before 1845. The third Tokugawa shogun, Iemitsu r. 1623-51 , the first born to the rule, spent much of his reign centralizing power in Edo, with the bakufu growing in importance as administrators and setters of policy. In 1645, the bakufu ordered all fiefdom lords who owned castles to make a shiro

• Binding: Wrappers

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